Day 134
Last week we received a call from Big Sisters, a non-profit in our area, asking us to donate clothes and household items we no longer use They distribute them to families in need and sell them to thrift stores, one of those being among my favorite shopping places. They said they would be doing a pick up in our area in a week. Tomorrow.
This is exactly what I needed. A deadline to clean out the closets and cupboards. Years worth of accumulation. Clothes that no longer fit, and hope has been abandoned that they ever will. Vases we will never use. Sheets that don't match any beds in the house. It was a week of mad sorting, washing and folding for the whole family. Tonight I looked at the pile of trash bags full, ready to be placed out in the morning and didn't see a kind act. I saw a mountain of procrastination, masquerading as kindness.
However, were it not for a worthy cause, I most likely would not have gotten it done. Yes, we benefit from the decrease in clutter, but our loss is the Big Sisters gain---One more for the kindness column.
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